3 
But 
wliea a 
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number of tlie Benies are ta 
mto the 
^ 
flomach, fcarcely half an hour elapfes before violent fymptoms fiiper 
vene; viz. vertigo, delirium, 
rreat thirft, painful deglutition, and retch 
ing, followed by furor, ftridor dentium, and convulfions ; the eye-lid 
s 
are drawn down, the uvea dilated and immovable ; the face becomes 
red and tumid, and fpafms affed: the mouth and jaw ; the general fen- 
fibility and irritability of the body fuffer fuch great diminution, that 
the llomach often bears large and repeated dofes of tart. emet. (gr. 14.) 
- without being brought into adion ; the pulfe is fmall, hard, quick, and 
fubfultus tendinum, rifus fa^rdonius & coma, generally precede death. 
The body being opened, Inflammation has been difcovered in the 
inteftines, mefentery, and liver, Comm. Nor. 1743, p. 61. And 
Boulduc, Hifl. de I'Acad. des Sc. de Paris, 1703, p. ^6» found the 
ftomach of a child eroded in three places. It may be neceifary to 
remark, that vinegar, liberally drunk, has been found very efficacious 
in obviating the effeds of this poifon j evacuations ihould hov/ever 
be always firft promoted. 
The leaves of the Belladonna were firft ufed externally to difcufs 
fcirrhous and cancerous tumours, and alfo as an application to ill 
their good effeds in this way at length induced 
conditioned ulcers 
phyficians to employ them internally for the fame diforders, and we 
have a confidcrable number of well authenticated fads which prove 
them a very ferviceable and important remedy.'' But it muft likewife 
be confeiTed, that many cafes of this fort have occurred in which the 
Belladonna has been employed without fuccefs:'^ this, however, may 
L J 
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inker's Confpea. Ther. Gen. Ed. 1725. p. 491. Journ. de Med. ann. 1766 
'■v^ 
T 
J 
Tranf. vol. 
Mich 
hy Mr. Pultney 
T 
Lambergen, ftated in 
654. 
Durlac Journ. de Med. t. 11. p. 4.4.Q, Amoureux, I. c. torn. 13. p. 47 
p. 108. Ludw. Adverf. Pra£!: 
1. c. torn. 14. p. iii 
P. 4. p. 637 
Comment, de Rebus, torn. 8. p. 
Marteau 
\ 
Bergius, (Mat. Med. p. 128. vol. i.} and Murray 
4. p. 100. 
To which we may add the later authorities of 
Med 
be learned from 
G 
convulfions 
34 
T. p. 440. who 
Mayerne Prax. Med. Syntagm. Alt. p. 136 
The good effe6ts of the berries may 
N. C.ann. 3. Obf. 64. Smetius, lib. 4.- 
85 
Heifter Chirurgie, p. 328 
Hdndelfe 
Dovern. in litt. ad Timmermann 
Der. Harr. over de Knierlnoejl 
De 
Timmerman 
Wahrnehmungen, torn. 2. p. 150. 
countrymen Gataker and Bromfield 
lat. Med. torn 2. p. 45. Schmuckero 
And fome accounts given of this plant by 
Acrel. 
Ch 
be 
